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7th June 2009 - Link Blog

MongoDB - Capped Collections. Collections with a size limit that automatically expire older entries are interesting—useful for things like a “recent searches on this site” feature.

Posted 7th June 2009 at 12:50 pm

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 7th June 2009.

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